Bio

I was born and raised in California.  From early childhood I developed a keen interest in photography, art and science.  After completing my degree in Motion Picture Production and Still Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography in 1972, I pursued a career in technology creating photographic processes for the semiconductor industry.  During my scientific career I began to create images art that challenged viewer interpretation of photography.

 

My full-time attention to fine arts photography during the last 10 years has produced three distinctive bodies-of-work; Liquid Flowers Series 2001 - 2007, Photographic Impressionism - The Unaltered State of Reality 2008 - 2011, and the Photo Anagram Image Series 2008 - 2011, all long-term studies of the subject.

 

Further, in March 2011 I released BeMUZE an iPhone / iPad application that automates the Photo Anagram Image process for users to make their own image patterns from mobile devices.  The application is available through Apple's iTunes App store.

 

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Exhibits

2011, "Ken Holden: Photographic Impressionism," Stanford University Art Spaces, Center for Longevity March 2011 - 2012, Stanford, California.

2010, "Ken Holden: Photographic Impressionism," Stanford University Art Spaces, September - October, Stanford, California.

2010, "Abstraction in Photography," The Vermont Photography Workplace, October, Middlebury, Vermont.

2010 "Ken Holden: Visual Interpretations in Photography," Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young, April, San Francisco, California.

2009, "Ken Holden: Elusive Impressions," Art Museums of Los Gatos, August - September, Los Gatos, California.

2007, "Flowers," Group Show, February - March, Rush Creek, Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

Projects

2011, BeMUZE, iTunes iPhone / iPad photography application, March release, Apple iTunes App Store.

2011, BeMUZE, YouTube iPhone / iPad video demonstration, (previously titled, PAI Creator).

2010, Commission project for private collector, black and white image scroll.

2008, de Young Museum Membership Drive Campaign.

 

Publications

2011, Convozine Social Media Magazine, "PAI Creator - Patterns from Image Replication,"

2010, Convozine Social Media Magazine, "Being Here Now: The Photographic Impressionism of Ken Holden,"

2007, Camera Arts Magazine, "Liquid Flowers," May/June issue, pages 18 - 21.

 

Lectures

2010, "Impressionism: Game Changers & Boundary Breakers," April 29th, de Young/ArtPoint/Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, live public radio broadcast.

2007, Photographer's Interest Group, Palo Alto, California.

 

Education

1972, Motion Picture Production & Still Photography, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California.